Patients died under care of NY doctor. He moved states and kept practicing.

Plus: Every storefront is covered in fake flowers [View this email in a browser.]( Gothamist relies on your support to make local news available to all. Not yet a member? [Consider donating and join today.]( [Patients were injured, died under care of NY doctor. He moved to New Mexico and kept practicing.]( [first image]( [Today's newsletter curated by James Ramsay]( Weather: ⛅ Partly cloudy and chilly this morning, with highs in the low 60s later. Donita Henry began seeing an OB-GYN named Dr. Thomas J. Byrne for prenatal care in October 1989, shortly after she’d become pregnant. She was 25 years old at the time and living in Geneva, N.Y., a small city near Rochester. "This was my first child, so I did not know what to expect. I'm going to trust my doctor, obviously," Henry recalled in an interview with Gothamist. She said she later learned that trust was misplaced. Her daughter died 23 hours after being delivered. [In this second installment]( of "Imminent Danger," a five-part investigative series and podcast, we hear Henry’s story and learn more on how Dr. Byrne managed to practice in multiple states after New York health officials revoked his license. [Read the story]( and [listen to the podcast](. Here's what else is happening: - Yes, [there's an election on Nov. 7](. Here's what New York City voters — and those who've yet to register — need to know. - [Thousands of pro-Israeli demonstrators]( gathered Sunday in Livingston, N.J. — where about half the population identifies as Jewish — to call for both peace and the destruction of Hamas. - Protests in New York City last Friday, where police were on "high alert" over fears of violence, [turned out to be largely peaceful]( with 61 arrests and minor skirmishes between pro-Israeli and pro-Palestinian demonstrators. - Sen. Chuck Schumer, who traveled to Tel Aviv over the weekend amid the Israel-Hamas war, said he [was rushed to shelter]( to avoid rocket fire yesterday. - Officials have [opened the first 21-acre section]( of Staten Island's Freshkills Park, which is being constructed on top of a massive former landfill site and will eventually be about three times the Central Park. - Ayat, a beloved Palestinian restaurant in Bay Ridge, saw an [onslaught of one-star reviews]( immediately after the Israel-Hamas war broke out. (Most of the reviews have since been taken down.) - The American Museum of Natural History said it will no longer display thousands of improperly acquired human remains — including the bones of Black New Yorkers that were [dug out of a Manhattan cemetery for enslaved people](. - After New York State made permits for legal weed shops available for the general public earlier this month, local community boards were immediately [flooded with applications]( that they don't have the bandwidth to handle. - "The indictments made him stronger": Lee Zeldin said he thinks Donald Trump [can "absolutely" win]( the 2024 presidential election. - Parking meter rates in Manhattan are [going up]( today. - New York City retail stores can't stop [covering themselves with fake flowers](. - If you're interested in owning this "self-sustaining" four-bedroom fortress on a storm-resistant island in the middle of the Long Island Sound, it's up for auction. - [J-E-T-S!]( “[This is our time to ensure ‘never again’ is not just a slogan.]( - Moshe Glick, co-organizer of [SUNDAY'S PRO-ISRAELI MARCH IN LIVINGSTON, N.J.]( More from Gothamist [second image]( [Storm damage from Ophelia forces Prospect Park Zoo to close indefinitely]( The Prospect Park Zoo's basement power and heating systems were destroyed by about 25 feet of floodwater from the remnants of Tropical Storm Ophelia two weeks ago — but "the animals are in great shape," a zoo director said. [Jacqueline Woodson on Bushwick, her new novel and having her books banned]( Jacqueline Woodson, the author of more than 20 books and the recipient of a MacArthur "genius" award, set her new novel, Remember Us, in Bushwick, where she grew up in the 1970s. [We Rely On Your Support]( [9 great places to go leaf-peeping around NYC if you don’t have a car]( The world doesn’t need more masses of Instagrammers forcing small towns to shut down scenic roads. [Instagram]( [Instagram]( [Facebook]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Twitter]( [New York Public Radio] [WNYC]( | [WQXR]( | [NJPR]( | [GOTHAMIST]( [WNYC STUDIOS]( | [THE GREENE SPACE]( Copyright © New York Public Radio. All rights reserved. 160 Varick Street, New York, NY 10013 [TERMS OF USE]( You can update your [PREFERENCES]( or [UNSUBSCRIBE]( from this list.